HES 505 Fall 2025: Session 1
image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Introductions
What can we do with spatial data?
Course logistics and resources
Testing out RStudio and GitHub Classroom
Your preferred pronouns
Where are you from?
What do you like most about Boise?
What do you miss most about “home”?
What is your research?
What I do
My path to this point
Why I teach this course
Geo: land, earth, terrain
Graph: writing, discourse
Tuan: Space (extent) and Place (location)
Analysis of the effects of extent and location on events or features
Location
Place
Region
Movement
Human-Environment Interaction
The place (on Earth) of a particular geographic feature